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One of the key points in music recommendation is authoring engaging playlists according to sentiment and emotions. While previous works were mostly based on audio for music discovery and playlists generation, we take advantage of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Loreto Parisi , Simone Francia , Silvio Olivastri , Maria Stella Tavella

Conventional Music Notation (CMN) is the well-established foundation for the written communication of musical information, such as rhythm, harmony, or timbre. However, CMN suffers from the complexity of its visual encoding and the need for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Matthias Miller , Alexandra Bonnici , Mennatallah El-Assady

Automatic lyrics transcription (ALT) remains a challenging task in the field of music information retrieval, despite great advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) brought about by transformer-based architectures in recent years. One…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jaza Syed , Ivan Meresman Higgs , Ondřej Cífka , Mark Sandler

Most of the previous approaches to lyrics-to-audio alignment used a pre-developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that innately suffered from several difficulties to adapt the speech model to individual singers. A significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Sungkyun Chang , Kyogu Lee

This paper describes a novel paradigm that formalizes automatic piano transcription (APT) as an optimal transport (OT) problem, not as a frame-level multi-label binary classification problem. Our method learns to minimize the cost of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Weixing Wei , Raynaldi Lalang , Dichucheng Li , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

This paper offers a precise, formal definition of an audio-to-score alignment. While the concept of an alignment is intuitively grasped, this precision affords us new insight into the evaluation of audio-to-score alignment algorithms.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-01 John Thickstun , Jennifer Brennan , Harsh Verma

Recent advances in audio-text large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for music understanding and generation. However, existing benchmarks are limited in scope, often relying on simplified tasks or multi-choice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yinghao Ma , Siyou Li , Juntao Yu , Emmanouil Benetos , Akira Maezawa

In this paper, we explore the intersection of technology and cultural preservation by developing a self-supervised learning framework for the classification of musical symbols in historical manuscripts. Optical Music Recognition (OMR) plays…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Elona Shatri , Daniel Raymond , George Fazekas

This paper develops automatic song translation (AST) for tonal languages and addresses the unique challenge of aligning words' tones with melody of a song in addition to conveying the original meaning. We propose three criteria for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Fenfei Guo , Chen Zhang , Zhirui Zhang , Qixin He , Kejun Zhang , Jun Xie , Jordan Boyd-Graber

In recent years, the accuracy of automatic lyrics alignment methods has increased considerably. Yet, many current approaches employ frameworks designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and do not exploit properties specific to music.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Jiawen Huang , Emmanouil Benetos , Sebastian Ewert

Automatic note-level transcription is considered one of the most challenging tasks in music information retrieval. The specific case of flamenco singing transcription poses a particular challenge due to its complex melodic progressions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nadine Kroher , Emilia Gómez

Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) by representing tasks and instances in natural language. However, purely language-based approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shaodi Feng , Zhuoyi Lin , Yaoxin Wu , Haiyan Yin , Yan Jin , Senthilnath Jayavelu , Xun Xu

For over 50 years, researchers have been trying to teach computers to read music notation, referred to as Optical Music Recognition (OMR). However, this field is still difficult to access for new researchers, especially those without a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Jan Hajič , Alexander Pacha

Audio representation learning based on deep neural networks (DNNs) emerged as an alternative approach to hand-crafted features. For achieving high performance, DNNs often need a large amount of annotated data which can be difficult and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen , Xavier Serra

The goal of real-time lyrics alignment is to take live singing audio as input and to pinpoint the exact position within given lyrics on the fly. The task can benefit real-world applications such as the automatic subtitling of live concerts…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jiyun Park , Sangeon Yong , Taegyun Kwon , Juhan Nam

Source separation is the process of isolating individual sounds in an auditory mixture of multiple sounds [1], and has a variety of applications ranging from speech enhancement and lyric transcription [2] to digital audio production for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bradford Derby , Lucas Dunker , Samarth Galchar , Shashank Jarmale , Akash Setti

Song translation requires both translation of lyrics and alignment of music notes so that the resulting verse can be sung to the accompanying melody, which is a challenging problem that has attracted some interests in different aspects of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Chengxi Li , Kai Fan , Jiajun Bu , Boxing Chen , Zhongqiang Huang , Zhi Yu

This paper approaches the problem of separating the notes from a quantized symbolic music piece (e.g., a MIDI file) into multiple voices and staves. This is a fundamental part of the larger task of music score engraving (or score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Francesco Foscarin , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Eita Nakamura , Gerhard Widmer

Automatic lyric transcription (ALT) is a nascent field of study attracting increasing interest from both the speech and music information retrieval communities, given its significant application potential. However, ALT with audio data alone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Xiangming Gu , Longshen Ou , Danielle Ong , Ye Wang

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) encompasses a broad range of computational techniques for analyzing and understanding musical content, with recent deep learning advances driving substantial improvements. Building upon these advances, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Chih-Cheng Chang , Bo-Yu Chen , Lu-Rong Chen , Li Su